Over the holidays, since I had some time off work, I've been working pretty hard at home. I brewed a batch of beer called GOMBA (Grumpy Old Man's Bitter Ale - named after me

pictured below). I brewed a batch of agave cactus mead. The beer will be ready in three months, the mead in a year.
Then there was 10 pounds of sausage: 5 pounds of chicken/apple in hog casings and 5 pounds of garlic beef sausages in lamb casing (which kept breaking on me... very frustrating).
On a whim, I bought one of those fake fireplaces which produce an image of flames. It was some work to install it in our fireplace, crawling into the soot to unscrew a bunch of screws, then ripping out metal with my bare hands (I'm too old for that!). Real fireplaces are of no real use here in Florida.
My wife has been baking like mad, because grandchildren (and their parents

) are coming to visit.
Here's GOMBA the beer. A day after this was taken, the foam was blowing off vigorously into the gallon reservoir on the side.

"Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." - Heinrich Heine